I have a question about game play. In a recent game, a player moved her Hunter onto a gate space with a Shiggoth and 3 cultists thinking she could kill off of them with two actions. However, first she had to roll the sanity die because of moving onto the Shiggoth space. She rolled the "add 2 cultists to the space you're in" side of the die.

The question is: does this trigger one Awakening or two Awakenings?

We played it as the latter, that the first cultist triggered the first Awakening (since there were already 3 cultists on the space) and the second cultist triggered a second Awakening for the same reason, which cost us the game as it allowed Cthulhu to emerge.

It was a close thing. We had three gates closed and killing off the cultists and the Shiggoth would have opened the way to closing the fourth and winning the game. The player took a chance and the die roll came up the worse possible side.